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Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net)
Elizabeth Warren, an American academic and member of the Democratic Party, believes that Google, Apple, and Amazon are trying to use their size to "snuff out competition." In a speech about the perils of "consolidation and concentration" throughout the economy, the Massachusetts senator singled out the three of tech's biggest players. From a report:Warren had different beefs with Google, Apple and Amazon, but the common thread was that she accused each one of using its powerful platform to "lock out smaller guys and newer guys," including some that compete with Google, Apple and Amazon. Google, she said, uses "its dominant search engine to harm rivals of its Google Plus user review feature;" Apple "has placed conditions on its rivals that make it difficult for them to offer competitive streaming services" that compete with Apple Music; and Amazon "uses its position as the dominant bookseller to steer consumers to books published by Amazon to the detriment of other publishers.""Google, Apple and Amazon have created disruptive technologies that changed the world, and ... they deserve to be highly profitable and successful," Warren said. "But the opportunity to compete must remain open for new entrants and smaller competitors that want their chance to change the world again."
She also seems to understand the role that government should play in combating that first rule.
Does whoever wrote the summary know that Elizabeth Warren's day job is as a sitting United States Senator? Apparently not.
Pulling up the ladder behind you is a STAPLE of the current tech company leadership.
Not just tech company leadership.
A *lot* of people have had a good long drink of the greed is good/reagonomics/greenspan business philosophy koolaid.
No amount of failure seems to convince them of the problems with it.
so her posturing against companies that use government to shut the door behind them to keep competition out are a bit disingenuous
No, it is not. The only way a monopoly can exist is through government protection. Her "posturing" is spot on.
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She also seems to understand the role that government should play in combating that first rule.
Perhaps she might also lecture her colleagues regarding what they should be focussing on - stuff like this - instead of them devoting their energies towards hobbling encryption and trying to remove their citizen's constitutional rights.
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Pulling up the ladder behind you is a STAPLE of the current tech company leadership.
I think you meant, "Pulling up the ladder behind you is a STAPLE of every company and government in the history of the universe."
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I'm glad to see she understands the first rule of business.
Honestly, I don't know what you are getting at. Is it, "Make money?" Or perhaps "Grow your business?" Maybe you mean "Don't talk about Fight Club."
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She also seems to understand the role that government should play in combating that first rule.
:head scratch: So Amazon, Apple, and Google should encourage their competition?
You mean like how the two major political parties have rigged the board so as to discourage political parties outside of the two majors?
1331461 is only semiprime *sigh* Alas - I am just short of 1337.
The only way a monopoly can exist is through government protection.
You have it exactly backwards. The only way competition exists in certain (most?) sectors is due to government protection.
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The problem is that a collective (like a society) is more than just a bunch of people crammed together.
It is a bunch of people who have to cooperate with each other. Cooperation requires limiting selfish indulgences, and defining where one person's rights end, and another's begins. Eg, if I am a home owner who is a lazy slob who harbors trash, my freedom to be a willful slob creates a haven for vermin that accosted my neighbors, bease the vermin don't stay put. To satisfy the neighbor's rights to keep their homes free of vermin, my right to be a slob has to be infringed.
We do not live in a universe where ideal fantasies about personal liberty can be realistically entertained.
That is what people try to tell you. You are the one not understanding.
Google and Apple are big supporters of liberal causes. Someone better get Warren back on the reservation.
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>> The only way competition exists in certain (most?) sectors is due to government protection.
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> That's a baldfaced lie.
This is why the Sherman anti-trust act exists. Monopolies are very easy to create in an unregulated economy. Even Smith acknowledged this fact.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
This fallacy rich quote proves that.
What fallacy exactly? Businesses — or individuals — don't exist separately from society and government. We're all in this together as a country for the last 240 years.
She is not being hypocritical, since she has also spoken out about the influence of big money on politics.
And then she gets on the stage with the biggest Big Money candidate there is, and shouts, "I'm with her!"
I'm fine with people donating to campaigns. I'm not fine with blatant hypocrisy.
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